PMID: 20635727Jul 20, 2010Paper

Hybrid operative intervention for DeBakey type III aortic dissection with the relay stent graft

Angiologii︠a︡ i sosudistai︠a︡ khirurgii︠a︡ = Angiology and vascular surgery
A M CherniavskiĭA G Edemskiĭ

Abstract

Determining the exact incidence of aortic dissection is highly conjectural because many cases of the disease remain undiagnosed. According to the autopsy findings, the incidence rate of the pathology concerned varies within the range from 0.2 to 0.8%. In clinical practice, aortic dissection is the cause of sudden death in 1.1% of the patients involved. However, aortic dissection should by no means be considered a rare disease. According to Borst et ah, ruptures in thoracic-portion aortic dissections are encountered 2-3 times more often than tears occurring in abdominal aortic aneurysms. The prognosis for patients presenting with a chronic aortic dissection is unfavourable. The commonest complications of the natural course of the disease include the development of a secondary dissection, formation of an aneurysm, progression of aortic regurgitation and circulatory insufficiency, occlusion of the aortic branches, and a late aortic rupture being the immediate cause of death in 30% of patients suffering from chronic dissection. With the recent advent of stent grafts, there appeared a possibility in the majority of cases involving a chronic type B dissection by the Stanford classification to substantially avoid an otherwise inevitab...Continue Reading

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